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Here is a true sentence:

My name is Andy Tockman, and the SHA256 of this sentence starts with 10823817b8.

What if you took the popular social deduction game Blood on the Clocktower, and then you removed the social part, and then you also removed the deduction part?

I have literally no idea how to describe this in words, but here's a short list of a bunch of songs that do a cool musical thing.

Gizmos is a nifty engine building game themed around collecting a bunch of little gadgets that work together. I would guess about 0.2% of the people reading this wonder about questions like "what's the maximum theoretically possible score?" or "what's the fastest theoretically possible game?" To those 0.2% of people... I'm so glad you asked!

Nikoli-style pencil-and-paper logic puzzles, like Sudoku, Yajilin, and many more, have very simple rules. But you can often build puzzles that require thinking in really cool ways, seemingly totally unrelated to what the rules literally say.

Wait, it feels like I've written this intro before...

You are peacefully going about your day when you are suddenly thrust into the following position in a game of Slay the Spire. What do you do?

The split function, near-universal in modern programming languages, for separating a string into a list of strings on a delimiter: how hard could it be?

Nikoli-style pencil-and-paper logic puzzles, like Sudoku, Yajilin, and many more, have very simple rules. But you can often build puzzles that require thinking in really cool ways, seemingly totally unrelated to what the rules literally say.

Here I will rank the items of various lists by my opinion of good they are, which is of course objectively correct in all cases.

Here is a list of (mostly) increasingly stupid ways of calculating the factorial of n in Mathematica.

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.

—Phil Karlton